GRANDFATHER'S WISHFUL FANTASY ABOUT HAVING A 'SMARTPHONE'.......BACK IN 1920!

A FEW TICKETS HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE, DUE TO THE DEATHS OF SOME 'TICKET HOLDERS'......BEGINNING, AS LOW AS $2500 FOR A SHARED ' INSIDE TWIN BED'....HEART MONITORS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST 'DELUXE SUITE TICKET HOLDERS'....FOR A SMALL ADDITIONAL FEE......AND 'SIGNATURE OF INSURANCE LIABILITY WAIVER'.....

Wanted....'Old Codgers....who dwell on Memories of their Youth....a half century back'....... Book your Voyage into The Sunset, today.....Wheelchairs, crutches, doctors, practical and clinical nursing staffs will be made available..... Reserve your electric lap blankets, now! Exciting shuffleboard competitions will be exhibited, just before 4:30's warm milk cocktails....and autographed copies of The Cyrkle's RED RUBBER BALL will be awarded to those over 80, who still have some 'canned heat' in their drifting memories, and before The Lettermen go 'out of their heads'......A screening of Francis Ford Coppola's THE OUTSIDERS will be shown at sunset, for those who may be a couple of decades 'off' their mark.......

"TOE RINGS" AND A SLOPPY PEDICURE.......WELL...WE WEAR RINGS ON OUR 'FRONT PAWS', DON'T WE....SO...WHY NOT ON OUR HIND FEET?

MOVIE SOUVENIRS, ABANDONED BY CHILLI PALMER & NANCY SINATRA.... AND AUCTIONED TO CREATE SPACE IN A LOS ANGELES WAREHOUSE

A visual portmanteau clustered in my thoughts this morning......I mean some really odd associations... searching the house for the 'shoe shelf bracket' that I bought 20 years ago from the 'sets sale' for Pulp Fiction, I donned the chocolate-brown coat that Travolta was wearing in a scene (in which the 'shoe shelf' is also shown.....and, thinking of what to make for a very late lunch, decided on Chili.....having 'misremembered Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, as "Chili" for an as yet unknown reason......maybe a faulty neuron link in my aging grey matter....... Well, I made the chili, anyway......and eating it, wearing the chocolate brown overcoat, on the 'chilly' back steps.....pondered.....'Who the (#*@ was "Chili"......Maybe, I'll remember, as if it were important...at all! Now....to hang the 'bracket' on a wall and top it off with a pair of ugly 80's platform heels.......Oh....Whew!....I remember......"Chili Palmer", also a Travolta Character....from "Be Cool" ... There is a 'continuum' to these associations......they're not totally "free'...but they can dwell in randomness sometimes....Where's the amphetamine and dextroamphetamine-laced chocolate shake? ...I thought I put it on the kitchen counter....on the chocolate overcoat.....It must be in the 'dressing room' with Nancy Sinatra's mid-calf boots.......hmmmm....there's absolutely no wear on their "souls".....I thought they were 'made for walking'......(press 'return'....'new paragraph'....I'm going on a magic carpet ride on that old rug that's rolled up in the closet!}

https://youtu.be/SbyAZQ45uww

HUMOROUS? A smoking pipe featuring a silver song bird on its bowl....and a 'grass grinder' featuring a jeweled owl as it's grinder handle....

                                                           "DECORATIVE SMOKING PARAPHENALIA"

THE BENEATH-THE-BOXWOODS BURIED TREASURES OF THE ANCIENTS MAYANS........

BEFORE ABANDONING MY ANTIQUES SHOPPE IN CATES CENTER, ATLANTA, I BURIED SEVERAL THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD  EFFIGY SCULPUTURES AND MANY PIECES OF BROKEN MAYAN POTTERY IN THE BRICK-ENCLOSED BOXWOOD 'GARDEN' OF THE  BUCKHEAD SHOPPING CENTER; TODAY, I'M WONDERING IF ANYONE HAS DUG UP THESE RED CLAY TREASURES,  IMAGINING THAT THIS 'LOCATION' WAS ONCE AN INDIAN BURIAL MOUND.....WHO KNOWS?  

NORDIC TRACK DESTINY

there are 'salt lovers' and 'sugar lovers'.....I'm pondering..'which is Better for a healthy heart and general well-being?' A first Step....giving those sea salt and dark bittersweet chocolate truffles to my next door neighbors.....if I can make it over, without 'finishing them off'......the truffles, that is......on my return from 'feeding the hungry', I dug up a dozen dandelions, stripping them of their leaves and flowers, to make a 'healthy' salad.....admittedly, bathed in a syrupy ginsing/garlic/molasses 'dressing'.....where's the insulin pump?? The bathroom Scales are in the middle of the floor, set to read body fat levels through one's feet, then indicate what percentage of one's (my) body is composed of Fat.......Subsequently, I've set a 'Goal' of having that number, by June....to be 'less than 18%.....after trying on some old pants that were about 4 inches from 'buttonabiity' and 'zippering up'.......The Sharper Image 'Stepping Device' is back in the bedroom and I've removed the cans of paint from the ancient Nordic Track "Pro-Skier", oiled its 'skis' and replaced its battery that had decomposed in the battery compartment, from years of neglect......

1948.....'Mr. Cigarette' visits hospitals to deliver free cigarettes to patients.....

during an era during which just about everyone smoked, snorted or chewed tobacco.....even pre-school kids were given 'candy cigarettes & cigars' to 'get them started'.......

Once, Queen Latifah had 'had it up to Here'.....make that 'Hear'.....But, now, even "The Queen" has bought into Gauray Gupta Gowns with Kick otta thay way capelets.......

                                         Isn't Green the Color of Money, after all?

"KIX" are for "KIDS".......Have another bowl, Alexander Litvinenko.......and another cup of green tea at The Pine Bar......I've been told that there's a toy plastic fish, that glows in the dark, in every cup!

Kitchens across America smelled of toasted grains and sugar as children poured bowls of Kix Cereal, eager to find the promised toy inside each box. Among the miniature prizes was something extraordinary, the Atomic Bomb Ring. At first glance, it was a playful novelty, a shiny trinket evoking the awe of the atomic age. Yet beneath its cheerful exterior lurked a shocking secret.

Each ring contained a tiny amount of polonium-210, one of the most toxic substances known to science. Designed to glow, it turned a child’s curiosity into a chilling historical mystery decades later. Parents and regulators at the time barely raised an eyebrow, reflecting an era when the dangers of radiation were often underestimated or dismissed. This toy is now remembered as a cautionary tale, a strange archaeological discovery of postwar optimism mixed with hazardous science.

The Atomic Bomb Ring tells a story of a society mesmerised by nuclear power, fascinated by novelty, and dangerously naive about science. It reminds us that objects from the past, no matter how innocent they appear, can reveal unsettling truths about the values, knowledge, and blind spots of their time. Today, this tiny radioactive ring survives as a stark reminder that history often hides its lessons in the most unexpected places.